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  • RedFrank24@piefed.socialtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldAccelerationism
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    1 month ago

    Accelerationism isn’t just being apathetic, it’s actively making things worse. It’s voting for Trump because the DNC didn’t elect Bernie Sanders.

    Lenin was much the same. He knew a revolution wouldn’t happen if things got better, so he did everything he could to make things as bad as humanly possible. When the provisional government came along, granted free speech rights and universal suffrage, Lenin was vehemently opposed to it, because you can’t have a communist revolution when stuff is going well. A stable government is not one you can overthrow.










  • “passive consumers of unthought thoughts” is an apt way of putting it. With AI, it’s so easy not to think and have it think for you, even in things that you should really want to think about because it’s entertaining.

    For example, I’ve been re-watching Game of Thrones, and I wondered how things would have changed if Joffrey had a father figure in his life that wasn’t Robert, say a teacher in swordsmanship. I could spend a lot of time thinking about how Cersei would see this teacher as a rival and want him dead, whether Robert would protect that teacher because he’s making Joffrey into more of a ‘man’, whether Joffrey being trained as a swordsman would make him braver, and even if everything happened as written up to the Blackwater, would Joffrey find his courage and go out into battle, and ultimately get killed by one of Stannis’ soldiers? What would happen to Sansa?

    Or… I could just ask ChatGPT, get a quick answer, and forget all about it.



  • I wouldn’t call her entrepreneurially minded. She fully intended just to make a single coat and keep it herself. If she were intending on making it a business, she should have been setting up a Dalmatian farm with the 101 puppies and then mass produce the coats. Inbreeding health defects don’t matter all that much when you’re just gonna be skinning any puppies born within weeks.


  • The exception being Hugh Grant. He went from heart throb in the 90s and 00s to a kind of elderly villain archetype. I wouldn’t call him particularly handsome these days, and while I wouldn’t say he’s aged like milk, he’s certainly not a silver fox.

    Despite not being washed up, he’s very good at looking as if he’s washed up.


  • RedFrank24@piefed.socialtoComic Strips@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    5 months ago

    Nah, angels appear in different forms depending on how high they are in the hierarchy. Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones all look distinctly non-human, and they don’t appear to humans often. Angels, Archangels and Principalities appear to humans quite often, so they all look like humans, just with wings.

    Dominions, Virtues and Powers are somewhere inbetween so they look human, but not quite.


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    5 months ago

    Iunno whether you’re judged as having the years not treat you well depends pretty heavily on your career and how well you do as an actress. For example, Maggie Smith definitely aged, but it didn’t matter because her image changed from a beauty when she was younger to a strict and harsh teacher/madam type as she entered her middle age and then to a refined and dignified lady when she was older. The same with Diana Rigg who was a Bond Girl, and is better known now as the Queen of Thorns than she ever was as Tracy Bond.

    Being old is not necessarily a problem, it’s what you’re known for. If you’re known exclusively for your beauty when you’re young, and don’t pivot as you age, then you’re gonna have a problem.


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    5 months ago

    Dude must be a vampire or something because in the Bible it says you can eat meat, you just can’t drink the blood, which is why you should drain the blood from any animal you slaughter before consuming the flesh. If we’re going by Christian depictions of angels then I assume we’re going by Christian afterlives and commandments.